Gwenna (Reality Z-25 31-H)
In Reality Z-25 31-H, Gwen Davis, better known as Gwenna, was the wife of Kaza. The two acted as the protectors of the Naked Jungle in Buranda. Her friend Gana nicknamed her “Little Sister Uchi”.
Description
Physical appearance
Gwenna's appearance varied between accounts, but she was at any rate a beautiful, white woman with long, wavy hair. She was nearly a head shorter than Kaza or Gana. In the account depicting her battle against Nerlana, she was depicted with black hair (COMIC: The Serpent Sorceress) similar to her counterpart in Jo-Jo the Congo King's universe (COMIC: Jo-Jo Congo King) as well as blue eyes, and she wore no visible jewelry. (COMIC: The Serpent Sorceress)
Personality
Gwenna was a generous, heroic individual. She was easy to get along with, and although she was committed to her nudist lifestyle, was entirely willing to wear clothes around other people for their own comfort. (COMIC: The Serpent Sorceress)
Powers & abilities
Though not visibly that muscular, she was physically accomplished, able to ride a zebra and to successfully tackle and disarm a man with a knife, albeit with the element of surprise. (COMIC: The Serpent Sorceress)
She additionally owned a Themiscyran Throwing Necklace made of kirbium, given to her by Jung-La. A metal crescent, it was easy to throw and returned to her hand even after hitting opponents. (COMIC: Situation on Earth-N)
Biography
Early life
Gwenna was originally the “bored socialite” Gwen Davis before finding a new life in the Naked Jungle as the “mate” of Kaza, who had already been “Jungle Lord” for some time by the time she joined him. (COMIC: The Serpent Sorceress)
In high school her friends included Deena and Junior, who later married. (COMIC: Ruthless Ro-Man)
Against the Serpent Cult
In 2010, Gwenna and Kaza received an email from the Commissioner warning them that the Serpent Cult, which Kaza had defeated ten years prior, before Gwenna married him, had been revived by the Serpent Priest's daughter Nerlana. While Kaza headed directly to the Temple of the Serpent God, Gwenna rode Zeb to the kraal near Buranda Pass to meet up with the Commissioner. There, she saved him and his new assistant Wimberly (who was rather startled by her state of undress) from an assassin sent by Nerlana.
After the assassin let slip that Kaza was headed into a trap at the Temple, the three drove in the Commissioner's car to the Natari village, where Gwenna, reunited with her friend Gana, they learned that the Serpent Cult had already announced to the villagers that they would sacrifice Kaza to the Serpent Lord that very evening. Recruiting Gana's finest warriors, they surrounded the Temple, but the situation ended up being resolved with minimal bloodshed when the Serpent Lord was revealed to be a very real, but non-supernatural, giant snake whom Wimberly shot at reflexively, breaking Nerlana's telepathic control on it and causing it to eat her instead of Kaza. (COMIC: The Serpent Sorceress)
Later events
At some point after leaving the Odds, Jenny Everywhere visited the Naked Jungle and met Kaza and Gwenna. She somehow managed to install a flat-screen TV in their jungle home. (COMIC: Whatever Happened to Jenny Everywhere?!)
Behind the scenes
Origins
Gwenna originated as an obscure public-domain character in the adventures of Jo-Jo, Jungle King. She appeared as Jo-Jo's love interest in the first story in the character's debut issue, where she was depicted as the Queen of the Bonangi. Notably, although she was coloured as white, nothing in the script indicated this. In the next story, Gwenna was replaced with the identically-drawn Geesha — likewise coloured as white, but outright depicted in the script as the daughter of a black man.
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Jay Epps paired a rebooted form of Gwenna with an unrelated public-domain “jungle king” character, Kaza, for his webcomic Kaza's Mate, Gwenna. Epps's Gwenna was officially Caucasian, being given a new backstory explaining her presence in the jungle, and eliminating the “queen” element. In her first outing, Epps's Gwenna shared her Golden Age counterpart's black hair. In the next story, Ruthless Ro-Man, this was changed to a dark, reddish brown and finally to outright red hair, which she retained throughout the rest of the webcomic.
External links
- Gwenna character profile on the Kaza's Mate, Gwenna website (NSFW)
- Gwenna RPG stat card on DeviantArt (NSFW)
- Gwenna on the Comic Fury Wiki
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| Reality Z-25 31-H • Earth-N • Jo-Jo Congo King |
